Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others.
Explore history through video & audio clips, reading selections and more. This would be a great resource tool to impact a history lesson or student presentation.
Welcome to our online learning community for Celebrate Kansas Voices presented by Story Chasers, Inc. (a nonprofit) and other partner organizations. CKV is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. Our project is starting in 2010, based on the successful Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project which started in 2006.
ReadWorks.org has a complied list of articles, primary sources with curriculum and videos for black history month. Resources are grouped by grade level ranging from grades K-12. Thanks to Linda Flint for sharing this resource.
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June 1, 2012 by glennw
I've written about Mary Madden before. Mary is the amazing Education and Outreach Director at the Kansas State Historical Society. And she and her tiny staff do incredibly big things.
Mary recently shared with me a book that looks very interesting. Titled Teaching History with Museums: Strategies for K-12 Social Studies: Strategies for K-12 Social Studies, it provides an introduction"
The story of Anne's life told through photos, audio and video clips. Contains some great historical photos of the time period that could be used in history class or in discussing the Holocaust.
NGAkids Art Zone interactives offer an entertaining and informative introduction to art and art history. Featuring a variety of art-making tools that encourage exploration and creativity, these activities are suitable for all ages. Simply select a thumbnail image at the left or click one of the colorful banners above to learn more about each program. Great for elementary students.